List of Famous people who born in 1959

Candice Yu is a Hong Kong film actress and occasional singer best known for her films with Shaw Brothers Studio of the 1970s and 1980s. She was the first wife of Hong Kong actor, Chow Yun-fat.

Solomon Yue, Jr. is a Chinese American politician and businessperson. He is vice chairman and CEO of the lobbying group Republicans Overseas and the national committeeman of the Republican Party of Oregon.

Stephen Edwin Caffrey is an American television, film and stage actor. He is the fifth of seven children born to an Irish-American family in Cleveland.

Yee Chih-yen is a Taiwanese film director.

Michel Roth is a French chef, two stars at the Guide Michelin. He has also received famous titles like the Bocuse d'Or and Meilleur Ouvrier de France, both in 1991.

Cheng Lai-king is a Hong Kong politician who serves as District Councillor for the Castle Road constituency, and as chairwoman of Central and Western District Council. She is a member of the Democratic Party and a registered social worker.

Achim Post is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2013.

Éric Halphen is a French judge best known as the investigating magistrate in the Parisian low-cost housing scandals of the 1990s.

Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller is a German businesswoman. She is the president and chairwoman of the Managing Board of the Trumpf GmbH + Co. KG, of which she has been a member since 2003, after having joined the company in 1985 as a public relations and branding specialist.

Eric Chan Kwok-ki is the director of the Chief Executive's Office (2017-present) and the secretary-general of the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Previously, he served as Director of Immigration (2011–2016).